Promoting Open Access: The Development, Collaborations, and Evaluation of the Kyoto University Rare Material Digital Archive (chapter 3)

Abstract

This article introduces the development of the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive and collaborations with external institutions that exploit the International Image Interoperability Framework. The Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive is one of output of the Kyoto University Open Access Promotion Project in which we aim to enhance our research support capability by making any scholarly information available online. In addition, we describe two collaborations: Digital Fujikawa, which is a collaboration with libraries, and the reciprocal links with the SAT Daizōkyō Database, which is a collaboration with a community of researchers. Furthermore, we discuss the challenges we faced when evaluating our archive. Following this, we argue for the importance of the evaluation of open-access digital archives from the perspective of research support.